Beat the Shift Podcast – Catcher Episode w/ Erik Halterman
The Catcher episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.
Guest: Erik Halterman
Strategy Section
- Snake Drafts
- How to generally prepare
- How has preparation changed over the past five years?
- Drafting “naked”
- Drafting early in the season (January) vs. drafting late in the season (March)
- Create a do not draft list?
- Draft risky pitchers?
- Proactive vs. Relative approach
- ADP Chicken
- How to use ADP
- How to handle risk?
- In the aggregate
- Per player
- Risk-adjusted pricing
- Power drafters (playing in multiple leagues)
- Binary risks
- Free agents in mono leagues
- Catcher strategy
- Player pool
- The value of catchers
- Catcher bump
ATC Undervalued Players
- Catchers
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- Salvador Perez
- Is Perez worthy of the Hall of Fame?
- Logan O’Hoppe
- Gabriel Moreno
- Austin Wells
- Luis Campusano
- Salvador Perez
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Mailbag
Injury Update
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Ariel is the 2019 FSWA Baseball Writer of the Year. Ariel is also the winner of the 2020 FSWA Baseball Article of the Year award. He is the creator of the ATC (Average Total Cost) Projection System. Ariel was ranked by FantasyPros as the #1 fantasy baseball expert in 2019. His ATC Projections were ranked as the #1 most accurate projection system over the past three years (2019-2021). Ariel also writes for CBS Sports, SportsLine, RotoBaller, and is the host of the Beat the Shift Podcast (@Beat_Shift_Pod). Ariel is a member of the inaugural Tout Wars Draft & Hold league, a member of the inaugural Mixed LABR Auction league and plays high stakes contests in the NFBC. Ariel is the 2020 Tout Wars Head to Head League Champion. Ariel Cohen is a fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Society of Actuaries (SOA). He is a Vice President of Risk Management for a large international insurance and reinsurance company. Follow Ariel on Twitter at @ATCNY.
The notable new categories to ATC projections, the first two seem to be renamed, however, I’m not sure about Dim. Is there a simple answer or will this be part of a new reveal later to look forward to?